Underreporting of wildlife-vehicle collisions does not hinder predictive models for large ungulates

Biological Conservation

Volumn 181, Issue , 2015, Pages 44-53

  Snow, Nathan P ^a,b   Porter, William F ^a   Williams, David M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident; Animal vehicle collision; AVC; Carcass data; Moose; Reporting bias; Road; Road kill; Survey error; White tailed deer; WVC

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; COLLISION; DATABASE; DEER; ROADKILL; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ILLINOIS; MAINE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84911058908     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.10.030     Document Type: Article

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